not been able to get to the bench for a few days due to stupid shifts at work but now im on rest days ive made a little progress

the engines are weird.......why make something in 4 quarters when it would have been easier to do it as 2 halves?to give you an idea......they are 115mm long at the mo but still have got lots of bits to be added

the base is done.....sprayed it blue, masked off the design (which will match the design on the pod), sprayed silver, demasked, topped off with some clear coat

in 2 halves certain bits would become trapped so the surface needs to be smoother (lower projections) to release from the moulds which don't give (metal)

It looks like it's nicely detailed.

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lol...thats not what i meant.........trying to make 4 quarters into a circle is impossible, 2 halves would have been so much easier

ive got a F16 kit somewhere with an engine that is only two halves

by the way...i work in the plastics industry.....stuff we make on injection machines are 6 times the size of these engines and we have no probs............in fact thinking back 10 years to a previous job we made stuff 100 times bigger in abs and pe with no probs

to me its poor design work that makes the whole process harder, even three parts would have been better than four

if i knew in advance how hard the engines were going to be (took me 2 days to stick together a total of 8 parts...and then not to my satisfaction) i would have approached it differently and made some kind of jig to hold them together correctly

Challenges for the old hands and eyes, F16 kits are a lot simpler than pod kits cannot compare those!

Your engines have large side cavities in them too, they are a fine design with all small detail, great stuff.I think they kept the moulds as simple as possible, so cheaper, to produce a probably not so very great amount of kits.

They could have added internal filler discs to keep it steady during glue up.I know what you mean now, it's unhandy to fiddle with 4 pieces trying to keep away from the glue with fingers.I use the very thin glue that runs into the seams so I glue after dry fitting....that way you can apply a few drops and "tack" the pieces, form them round and then fully glue the seams.

I worked in the plastics too for a while in 4 shifts, great colleagues but it wasn't my game. They make pvc window frames, pipes, gutters, ground pipes, fittings and all stuff around the house.

engines had a coat of black and then silver.............blue band been added...........started on a few other bits

main prob with this kit is the paint call outs.........totally wrong....ive watched the movie clip so may times to work out colours .....ive sprayed silver some of the engine parts that will be the sandy yellow or red as my plan is to do the hair spray technique to put some wear on the edges

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